David A. Rosenbaum is a cognitive psychologist whose main interests are human perception and performance. He attended Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania and Stanford University, California, where he received his PhD. He worked at Bell Laboratories, Hampshire College, Amhert, Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Pennsylvania State University. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Rosenbaum was the Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.